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pandohymethelia- That day that humans are frozen in place for a full day (There are actually 366 days in a year ... or 367), while pandas take over the planet, and dress and act like humans. Is considered the major contributing factor to lost socks.

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mandofunclbun - When serving food, the act of surreptitiously retaining the best-looking portion for yourself.

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inclimicon - conventions held in the wrong places at the wrong time of year, that you have to go to anyway




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Are you referring to the abstract, if archaic, Illyrian noun, pronounced "Jyay- schtick--Koo--SASTAY" (always remember that Illyrian nouns are conjugated terminally and labially) ? Or do you mean the verb to jastecusate (Old Norse--pronounced "Yass--TAY-- coo--zhtaight" and used in the pluperfect (remember, the pluperfect in Old Norse is always identified by the suffix zhtaight); ie--and in partial translation: "I had recently jastecusated but the barmaid paid me no never mind" ? Please be more Passiphic.


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Passiphic – I had no luck tracking that word through the usual avenues. Fortunately, I located a hand written dictionary passed down to me by my great-grandmother on my mother’s side. The word spelled ‘passific’ is used to describe anything that aids in the birthing of a calf, during an especially difficult pregnancy.

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ganuflastine - A type of glass vessel used in alchemical laboratories in 18th century northeastern Italy (and perhaps as far south and east as the Dalmatian coast) for experimentation in extracting a factor from the blood of mouflon that was thought to confer extreme surefootedness on those who consumed it.

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strydulophagophony - An instrument designed as a suit with miniature pipes threaded throughout. The instrument is designed to play a music piece at the stride of the ‘player’, so working much like a player piano – the actual piece is programmed into the instrument, no keys are pressed. The player must keep pace with the tune to play it properly. A forty year old man, who suffered a massive heart attack whilst playing flight of the bumblebee, is suing the designer – which is why the suit is now in storage.

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thrastotineal of or pertaining to the thrastotin, those mischievous little creatures that shred toilet paper and then blame the poor innocent cat.

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Neiwmexar: A behind-the-scenes helper in traditional Chinese stage productions, whose job it is to make sure the flying wires that cause the performers to leap and fight in mid-air do not get tangled together.

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Simuroodle: An exercise where an actor must simulate a noodle frying in a pan. It's in a list of such exercises. The easiest is the dejected tomato. The most difficult, rarely achieved, is the IBM Wheelwriter.


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forlormalse: A poetical form of the Alsatian dialect, used in the first half of the seventeenth century for the composition of dirges, verses commemorating long-dead heroes and virtuous women, and sonnets about unrequited love. It fell from use after the last poet who utilized it died of consumption in a garret in Strasbourg.


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Quintorrendiality: a word coined by Tarantino to describe his merging of two clashing realities. A dark world filled with assassins and monsters, and the mundane world where two hitmen can discuss the intricacies of fast food in France.

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chankoshantix: A jocular (and intentionally disrespectful) alternate spelling of Tschankotschiantics, a health regime and philosophy that enjoyed a brief but intense vogue in 1920s resort towns in the south of France (especially in the Frejus-to-Cannes area), established by a reputed member of a cadet branch of the deposed Russian imperial family, Princess Tschankotschanskaya. Artichokes and wild jasmine honey, applied both internally and externally, figured prominently in Tschankotschiantics.


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Pallaxomane: The noble steed of Gandalf the Grey's lesser-known wizard compatriot, Bridegul the Beige, from some recently discovered notes of J.R.R. Tolkien's found in an old Velveeta box. With the Velveeta still inside.

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Aethygarn – An organ, that was present in Neandertals, located somewhere between the liver and the gall bladder, which prevented you from sneezing and farting at the same time. Now it just makes your head explode.

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Chipzutwain: One of the earliest examples of commuter transport, it was a wagon that made the rounds between three villages on an island in the Hebrides in the 1450s. But since there was no particular reason why anyone would have wanted to go from one of these villages to another as they were all more or less the same, the idea of commuting didn't catch on for several more centuries.

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Wanolpharp - Did you know that walruses at one time possessed prehensile flippers? Preposterous, right? Well I’ve found photographic evidence that said flippers exist and I’m 25% certain that these photographs weren’t doctored in any way. Walruses were at one time able to grasp and play stringed instruments. So this myth about mermaids singing to sailors is simply false. These sailors, half stared and delirious, were seeing a walrus playing a wanolp-harp.

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zhithinaxilate: An organic compound and essential nutrient in the diet of the large, flightless dodo of Madagascar (Raphus cucullatus), which dodos received from consumption of the Sint Athanasius banana (Musa athanasia), so named by Dutch explorers of Madagascar in the 17th century--who, regrettably, also found this banana so incredibly delicious that they quickly denuded the island of this plant. The dodos, denied this vital nutrient, eventually weakened and became extinct not long after. And you thought they'd simply succumbed to habitat destruction and overhunting, didn't you? Current research into resurrecting the dodo as a species will of course hinge on the resurrection of the extinct Sint Athanasius banana; Anthony Bourdain has already vowed to hold a dinner party featuring roast dodo stuffed with bananas.

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*And here I thought it was the Dodo leaving its eggs in another bird’s nest that eventually led to its extinction. What unusual evolutionary path led the Dodo to exhibit that behavior?*


Klondispiculosis - This is an extension of the brain freeze phenomenon, where the arms and legs cease to function for a short period of time – most commonly seen after taking a bite of a Klondike bar. If you see someone take a bite of this ice cream bar and immediately ‘collapse like a bunch of broccoli', then you have witnessed an episode of klondispiculosis.




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Aberondocromby (pronounced "Aberby"): A noble family of the Highland region of Scotland, former bearer of the Scottish and UK title of the Earls of Inverstrathauchterfarigaig (pronounced "Inverstrathauchterfarigaig", unfortunately) having as its primary seat the 12th century castle of Cougylagganballafeadh on Loch Knochybraedrumbrora. The last Earl of Inverstrathauchterfarigaig died childless in 1920 having refused to marry and continue the line, famously saying that "Nae bairn owt be burthened wi' a name like a hippo choking on a sturgeon. And as for the spelling, we best nae go there." Like the dodo, the family is now extinct.


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Apologies. Still recovering from the last definition. After a third round of psychotropics, (quoting from Shakespeare … or was it Sherlock) ‘… though I dirtied my fluffy white tail I have emerged, enlightened.’

Gleesturtz- An episode of ‘A Land of the Lost’ that never made it to production. One of The Sleezstaks gave birth to a child (Gleesturtz), but not baerned birthed in the normal fashion. Instead of the birth canal, the baby came out of the left ear canal of the Sleezstak, which expired during the process. This was obviously not suitable for a family show.

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*which gave the expression "stick it in your ear" a whole new layer of meaning in Hollywood through the rest of the 70s.

Plublizandemoh: A lesser demon or avatar of D'naldt-rmp, the principal agent of evil in the hierarchy of an obscure sect of proto-Assyrians living in the upper Tigris valley in the second millennium BCE. Plublizandemoh was responsible for failures in the pomegranate crop, particularly goopy head-colds, incidents involving broken sandal straps (but only of the right foot--the demon Shublizandemoh took care of left feet), and stupid comments made by in-laws at family gatherings.

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selvaggificerous reproduction is when selvatic plants propagate wantonly and vociferously, according to the eminent eitheenth-century Moravian botanist Morbo Pancorvo.

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Pantinoxyl- A new acne cream that employs live beetles. The beetles have been trained to target the oil beneath skin, all but eliminating the acne. There has been some difficulty marketing the cream, because apparently some people are uncomfortable allowing live beetles to cover their face.

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